Dimeji Bankole’s 7-Year-Old Daughter With Sickle Cell Disease Died
Sad news have come from Dimeji Bankole’s
family, as his 7-year-old daughter Yewande
Semiat has lost her life in a battle with a
sickle cell disease.
Oladimeji Sabur Bankole is a Nigerian politician
and former Speaker of the House of
Representatives
According to the official statement released by
Bankole’s grieving family, the girl was born with
HBSS Sickle cell disease. Initially the girl was
treated at a Lagos hospital but later was
transferred to a London hospital.
Yewande passed away at 10.30pm on Wednesday
October 1st, 2014 in London, UK. Her remains
were buried according to Islamic rites. Yewande
is the grand daughter of Chief Alani Suara
Bankole and the daughter of former Speaker of
the House of Representatives, Dimeji Sabur
Bankole.
Sickle-cell disease or sickle-cell anaemia is a
hereditary blood disorder, characterized by an
abnormality in the oxygen-carrying haemoglobin
molecule in red blood cells that leads to a
propensity for the cells to assume an abnormal,
rigid, sickle-like shape under certain
circumstances.
Sickle-cell disease is associated with a number of
acute and chronic health problems, such as
severe infections and attacks of severe pain and
an increased risk of death.
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